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Tighter Credit and Consumer Bankruptcy Insurance

Autores 
Anne Villamil
Marcel Peruffo
Caterina Mendicino
Tiago Cavalcanti
Ano de Divulgação 
2019
Código JEL 
E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment
E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
G1 - General Financial Markets
Resumo 
How does bankruptcy protection affect household balance sheet adjustments and aggregate consumption when credit tightens? Using a tractable model of unsecured consumer credit we quantify the trade-off between the insurance and the creditworthiness effects of bankruptcy in response to tighter credit. We show that bankruptcy dampens the effect of tighter credit on aggregate consumption on impact. This is because it allows borrowers to sustain consumption against severe financial distress. However, by leading to consumers’ exclusion from the credit market for a certain period, bankruptcy also reduces their ability to smooth consumption over time, implying a slower recovery. The bankruptcy code establishes how costly it is to default, and, thus, plays a crucial role in determining consumers’ bankruptcy decisions and in shaping consumption dynamics. We quantify that the 2005 BAPCPA reform, by making filing for bankruptcy more costly, worsened the negative welfare effects of the subsequent credit tightening.
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